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Cameroon president Paul Biya, in a rare public address, has called for a “grand national dialogue” to resolve a separatist crisis that has left thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced in the west African nation. The conflict has seen the largely francophone country’s two English-speaking regions agitate first for greater autonomy and,...

Vienna has held off Melbourne to retain the top spot on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index for 2019, further strengthening its reputation as the world’s most pleasant city, while the “gilets jaunes” protests hurt Paris’ score. The Austrian capital, which attracts tourists for its classical music scene and imperial history...

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- More than 500,000 people have fled conflict in the southwest and northwest Anglophone regions of Cameroon in anticipation of a lockdown called by rebels, a UN spokesman said on Wednesday. "The humanitarian situation in the...

As world leaders gather their resources to fight the forest fires which are devastating the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, satellite images from NASA have revealed a similar inferno raging across southern Africa. The burning forests cover an area of more than a...

A military court in Cameroon Tuesday handed down a life sentence against the head of the country's anglophone separatist movement, Julius Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, and nine of his followers, lawyers said. The 10 were convicted of charges including...

The United StatesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention said there were 21 new measles cases recorded last week, which brings the total number of cases across more than 30 states to more than 1,200 on Monday, according to CIDRAP. Health officials said it remains the worst outbreak of the virus since 1992 after there was a 1.8 percent in the...

FIFA released its 10 nominations for the Puskas Award on Monday, with Lionel Messi and Zlatan Ibrahimovic the biggest names on the list. Lionel Messi and Zlatan Ibrahimovic lead the names nominated for FIFA's Puskas Award, given to the scorer of the best goal of the season. A panel of FIFA and external football experts selected 10 goals to put to a...

When word that Equatorial Guinea was building a border wall reached the Cameroonian capital Yaounde at the end of July, army chief Rene Claude Meka promptly set out to tour the 180-kilometer (111-mile) stretch, Deutsche Welle reports. On the Equatoguinean side, locals had been informed that the border wall was intended to keep out WestAfricans...

The Gulf of Guinea is notorious for piracy, but nations in region have limited surveillance and maritime defence capabilities Nine Chinese and eight Ukrainian seamen were abducted on Thursday when two merchant vessels came under attack in Cameroonian waters, sources said Friday. "Seventeen Chinese and Ukrainians were kidnapped... (of whom) nine...

Workers should be given pay rises and more time off to splash the cash if the government wants to solve Britain’s persistent productivity crisis, according to new research. UK productivity as measured by output per hour worked has been growing at a snail’s pace since the last recession, slowing down sharply from its pre-crisis trend....

Boris Johnson's senior adviser tasked with delivering Brexit has been accused of hypocrisy after it emerged a farm he co-owns received over £200,000 in European Union subsidies. Dominic Cummings, who helped devise the Vote Leave referendum campaign in 2016, is now the most senior official in Downing Street and has been a fierce critic of...

YouTube star MarinaJoyce has been missing for nine days. The charity Missing People has released an appeal for the 22-year-old to get in touch amid claims she went missing from her home town of Haringey, London on 31 July. “Can you help to find Marina Joyce, 22, missing from #Haringey? ‘Last seen on 31 July and reported missing to police...